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Argonne’s METL gears up to test more sodium fast reactor components
Argonne National Laboratory has successfully swapped out an aging cold trap in the sodium test loop called METL (Mechanisms Engineering Test Loop), the Department of Energy announced April 23. The upgrade is the first of its kind in the United States in more than 30 years, according to the DOE, and will help test components and operations for the sodium-cooled fast reactors being developed now.
P. K. Sarkar, M. A. Prasad
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 74 | Number 1 | April 1980 | Pages 52-60
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE80-A18947
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Using the earlier formulations for predicting the error in a Monte Carlo game, a few general results about Russian roulette and splitting are obtained. Furthermore, the integral equations for the variance are numerically solved to compare different biasing procedures such as exponential transform and path-length stretching in multigroup transport problems. It is also shown that the results for an infinite medium are close to the results for thick finite slabs. Use of the moments method to solve the infinite medium problem results in considerable saving of computing time.
